%0 Journal Article
%T The Latin-Americanization of Greece and the lessons for the European South
%A Takis Fotopoulos
%J International Journal of Inclusive Democracy
%D 2010
%I The International Network for Inclusive Democracy
%X It is, therefore, imperative that the anti-systemic Left, in Greece and in Southern Europe in general, directly challenges the present European integration in terms of markets and capital, and fights instead for the establishment of a new confederation of European peoples, initially in the European South, where they share common economic, political and social problems. This is a first step towards the creation, in the future, of a new institutional framework which institutionalises the equal distribution of political and economic power among South European peoples, and among all citizens within each part of the confederation ¨Da development that could serve as a model for the integration of European peoples as a whole, within a pan-European confederation of Inclusive Democracies. This implies the elimination of power structures and relations, which characterise the present so-called ¡°democracies¡± and capitalist market economies, and their replacement with new societies where the peoples directly, and not through ¡°representatives,¡± control the political process, as well as the economic process through the collective ownership and control of economic resources, within a framework of self-management by workers, peasants and students of factories and offices, farms and education places respectively, in a way that reintegrates society with Nature.
%K Greece
%K economical crisis
%K european south
%K EU
%K European Commission
%U http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/pdf%20files/pdf%20vol6/The%20Latin-Americanization%20of%20Greece%20and%20the%20lessons%20for%20the%20European%20South.pdf